Aunty Sue’s Gives Back to Community

Photo: Kevin Bonk

Photo: Kevin Bonk

May 12th marked the Grand opening of Aunty Sue’s restaurant in their new location in the Brant Hotel. Aunty Sue’s is a well known restaurant that has been in business for many years here in the Fort. Sue Tkachuk, the owner of Aunty Sue’s, has built a reputation of serving delicious food, be if for breakfast, lunch or dinner — not forgetting her homemade pies that are so delicious that it is worth bartering with other customers for the last slice.

Coupled with Sue’s great meals and her hot, homemade soups which have warmed many on cold a cold winter day, Sue also has a reputation for warming hearts with her generosity. Over the years, Sue and her husband Bill have hosted Christmas Dinner in their restaurant or donated Aunty Sue’s gift certificates for every Christmas hamper that the Food Bank puts out in the community.

True to her genuine giving nature, Sue’s grand opening contributed half the day’s proceeds to the Robin Hood Foundation, which assists people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the community. The proceeds donation came to an appreciative $600.

In attendance at the grand opening was Puppets on String, who provided a fun and delightful puppet show for over two hours. Puppets on a String are a group of disabled people who are puppeteering their way into becoming very well known. The puppets are fabulous looking, choreographed to Johnny Cash’s ‘Burning Ring of Fire’, or a puppet turtle with an umbrella singing along to ‘Singing in the Rain,’ just to mention a couple of acts of their fantastic show.

Mayor Gale Katchur was also in attendance for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Along with the proceeds, Sue also donated two puppets to Puppets on a String that she had lovingly packed away and rediscovered during the restaurant’s move. ~JS